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ULI’s forthcoming report — Global Innovations for Health, Social Equity, and Sustainability

Lisa Cavicchia — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 16:03:21 +0000

The Urban Land Institute’s Building Healthy Places Initiative profiled more than 30 approaches to the public realm during the pandemic from around the globe, representing a range of cities—small and large, on different continents, implementing pilot projects or accelerating long-term plans. The examples illuminate how cities can innovate with low-cost, immediately responsive, and creative interventions that promote health and social equity. Several of these examples, spanning four different types of public space projects, are highlighted in this article. The Pandemic and the Public Realm: Global Innovations for Health, Social Equity, and Sustainability is a forthcoming report of ULI

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Evaluation of COVID-response Complete Street activation (Toronto’s Destination Danforth)

Lisa Cavicchia — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 14:47:42 +0000

Destination Danforth is part of a suite of ActiveTO programs designed to support the City of Toronto’s restart and recovery response to COVID-19. These programs are part of a period of unprecedented rapid program implementation and therefore deserve careful evaluation.The evaluation of the Destination Danforth Complete Street installation was conducted by Park People and The Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT) in September/October 2020.

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Edmonton’s Shared Streets and Mobility Lanes will be opening again this spring, for people who walk, bike and drive, regardless of how they choose to move around our city!

Lisa Cavicchia — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:56:02 +0000

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Vision Zero Street Labs combine the expertise and power of Edmontonians (YOU!) and City of Edmonton staff to quickly and creatively address neighbourhood safety and livability concerns

Lisa Cavicchia — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:54:21 +0000

To learn more about these temporary traffic safety pop ups, visit https://edmonton.ca/safestreets.

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Vancouver-based survey to solicit ideas to help make streets for people during COVID-19 recovery.

Lisa Cavicchia — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 21:38:43 +0000

We are making temporary changes to our streets to help residents physically distance and mitigate the risk of COVID-19 to our communities by:

Room to Move. Repurposing street space for more walking, rolling, and cycling along Beach Ave.
Pop-up Plazas. Creating pop-up plazas so people can gather outside
Temporary Patios. Approving temporary patios so people can dine out and businesses can continue to serve customers
Sidewalk Widening. Making more room for walking and queuing along busy streets
Room to Queue. Making more room to line up and board buses at some key bus stops
Slow Streets. Calming traffic to make ‘slow streets’ more comfortable for people walking, rolling, and cycling

These measures also support our ongoing effort to create safer streets, limit the effects of climate change, and increase social connection between residents. We are monitoring the impacts of these initiatives and getting feedback from the public to understand what could become longer term.

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Results from surveys of Montreal’s pedestrian streets and « pandemic tracks » show that residents are in favour

Lisa Cavicchia — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:47:57 +0000

The City conducted a web survey & also randomly interviewed people in the street. The “pandemic tracks”, these protected cycle paths installed on major arteries in the city, have garnered a very high level of support to the tune of 80%+, despite demonstrations by businesses in some spots. The pedestrianization of certain commercial arteries for the summer period was also greatly appreciated, shows the same survey – between 74 to 83%.This includes the allowances made so that restaurant owners could enlarge their terraces to enable more outdoor seating.

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Every One Every day provides space, platform & resources to share project or business ideas to make their neighbourhood better.

Lisa Cavicchia — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:15:39 +0000

Every One Every Day builds on the ‘hands on’ projects that people have been creating over the last few years in their own neighbourhoods. These types of projects welcome people from all walks of life.

• Sharing skills, spaces and resources.• Families working and playing more together. • Batch cooking and community meals. • Food growing and tree planting. • Trading, making and repairing.

The team will make things very simple – including:

Find you useful spaces for the projects (kitchens, workshops storage spaces etc.)
Supplying materials and equipment for practical activities – no form filling for grants.
By arranging insurances and health and safety.
Holding festivals, workshops and business programmes.

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#RestartSmartVancouver includes additional pop-up plaza and temporary patio applications

Lisa Cavicchia — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 21:01:26 +0000

This week, Vancouver unveiled their latest pop-up plazas, approved additional patio permits, and rolled out temporary changes to Granville Street.

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The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) and the Urban Project developed a street rebalancing guide to help communities re-open safely.

Lisa Cavicchia — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:24:09 +0000

The COVID-19 Street Rebalancing Guide is for decision-makers and practitioners alike. Drawing on case studies from around the world, it offers strategies and practical guidance on rebalancing streets through three phases of COVID-19 response—from immediate to longer-term—including pedestrian and bike lanes, curbside queuing areas, and temporary patios and parklets. This is a unique opportunity to spark projects with transformative value. Temporary measures can be deployed quickly to address long-standing gaps—demonstrating value, building support for permanent installations, and providing a foundation for more walkable, livable cities across Canada.

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The City of Victoria’s move to allow businesses to build patios on street “flex spaces” may continue past the pandemic.

Lisa Cavicchia — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 14:08:11 +0000

Victoria’s downtown business association says it will be a key to keep the dollars tourists usually bring flowing. And that the impact will be far beyond just those with patios.

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